Correlation ≠ Causation

Ask an Inca –is it a good idea to annoy the mountain spirits? Lunghu thinks you Norteños can guess the answer (despite your customary obtuseness): no, it is not. Because unwelcome things will happen if you rashly do so …

Well, it seems as though Pinochetistas can be a little slow to get the message, but eventually –eventually– the light may dawn behind their shrouded eyes. Perhaps some kind soul will explain it to them.

A Chilean appeals court in the southern port city of Puerto Montt ordered suspension of the 2.9 billion dollar HidroAysén project, which plans to build a complex of hydroelectric dams in the Patagonian wilderness.The court decreed a stay [in the government’s permitting process], “which means the project is frozen until the essence of the matter is resolved,” the judiciary said in a statement.